EU Customs IPR Enforcement Legislation Review

Commission Consultation on Successor to Regulation 1383/2000

The European Commission is currently in the process of reviewing Council Regulation (EC) No 1383/2003 of 22 July 2003 concerning customs action against goods suspected of infringing certain intellectual property rights and the measures to be taken against goods found to have infringed such rights.

The implementation of a simplified procedure, enabling customs authorities to have infringing goods abandoned for destruction under customs control, without there being any need to determine whether an intellectual property right has been infringed.

The costs of storage and destruction of goods and the concerns raised by right holders regarding their financial responsibilities under the current regulation.